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Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal.
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal. |
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Fri, 19 Feb 2016 16:21:59 +0000 |
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Hello, John.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 03:41:22PM -0500, John Yates wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
> > There may be better ways to achieve the single mode line, but one way
> > would be to implement mode lines as windows in their own right, thus giving
> > them scope to be somewhere else other than squashed up into a window's last
> > line.
> I have yet to use FM. OTOH I have often wanted to put the mode line
> at [the top] of my windows. There are some hacks out on the web that
> approximate such behavior. They do so by usurping the header line,
> thereby breaking various modes.
> Putting the mode line at the top of the window is especially desirable on
> large, high resolution screens. When a buffer's contents does not fill
> a vertical window there can be a large expanse of blank space between
> EOB and that window's mode line.
I don't think this would be too difficult to implement, as a hack, and
would be a good learning exercise for the display code. One problem I
foresee is that there would no longer be anything to separate the main
window area from the minibuffer. Have you any thoughts on how this
would be handled?
> /john
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., (continued)
- Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/19
- Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/19
- Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., Alan Mackenzie, 2016/02/19
- Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/19
- Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., Alan Mackenzie, 2016/02/20
- Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., Eli Zaretskii, 2016/02/20
Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., Anders Lindgren, 2016/02/19
Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal., John Yates, 2016/02/18
- Re: The future of Follow Mode - a proposal.,
Alan Mackenzie <=